To accept, on the whole, the report issued by the committee chaired by Angus Houston and enact most of it accordingly, including offshore processing.
That they are taken in then put into detention centers.
They take illegal asylum seekers to Christmas Island.
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Phosphate mining, a detention camp for Australian asylum seekers, and (until recently) money laundering.
The Government took it and spent it on asylum seekers.
Asylum Seekers - film - was created on 2009-02-05.
Political asylum
Food
People Smugglers think of asylum seekers as items to smuggle into countries.
Australia spent $142 millions on detention centers and asylum seekers.
Those seeking asylum are doing so because they are afraid that the government in their native country may hurt them. This is very common when someone reveals inside information about the government that is considered classified.
Well, for those whom this may concern, asylum seekers are also known as refugees.